Chicken (Poultry) Addiction Anonymous *Chat Thread*

[Miss Lydia]

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Happy to have you join, but now you have to spill the beans on your addiction, tell us all about it.

Well......

Our first experience with chickens was 5 years ago. We got some Rhode Island Red hens from some of our friends. Some coyotes got all of them. After that I lost interest in chickens. "They where just for eating" I thought. Then we moved to South Dakota. We bought some Bantam chicks from a feed store. We raised them so we could eat they're meat... but we just couldn't kill them after we had just raised them. They became our pets. All of the chickens exept one died from various reasons. One got trampled by our horse, the other drowned in the stock tank. After that I thought chickens where "just for eating". I finally got another one.. A Barred Rock named Serena. She is still my favorite chicken. After that I kept getting more and more chickens until I was overrun with them! I have 20 of them...

Sounds like you got it alright, but I will be the one to break the news[which you have already guessed anyway] there is no known cure.

we just all have to be here to help each other and to be supportive and we will be. I will be the first to say now that you have 20 chickens you need some ducks and maybe a goose. some one else will tell you you need goats and turkeys and guineas, but it's for your own good that we tell you these things.

So we welcome you to PAA

 

[The Red Rooster]

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Well......

Our first experience with chickens was 5 years ago. We got some Rhode Island Red hens from some of our friends. Some coyotes got all of them. After that I lost interest in chickens. "They where just for eating" I thought. Then we moved to South Dakota. We bought some Bantam chicks from a feed store. We raised them so we could eat they're meat... but we just couldn't kill them after we had just raised them. They became our pets. All of the chickens exept one died from various reasons. One got trampled by our horse, the other drowned in the stock tank. After that I thought chickens where "just for eating". I finally got another one.. A Barred Rock named Serena. She is still my favorite chicken. After that I kept getting more and more chickens until I was overrun with them! I have 20 of them...

Sounds like you got it alright, but I will be the one to break the news[which you have already guessed anyway] there is no known cure.

we just all have to be here to help each other and to be supportive and we will be. I will be the first to say now that you have 20 chickens you need some ducks and maybe a goose. some one else will tell you you need goats and turkeys and guineas, but it's for your own good that we tell you these things.

So we welcome you to PAA

Well, I forgot.. I do have 3 ducks. I use to have Guineas too.

 

[Christie Loves Silkies]

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At first I thought that was a swatting kitten, lol.

haha

I'm so in love with them

 

[Miss Lydia]

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Sounds like you got it alright, but I will be the one to break the news[which you have already guessed anyway] there is no known cure.

we just all have to be here to help each other and to be supportive and we will be. I will be the first to say now that you have 20 chickens you need some ducks and maybe a goose. some one else will tell you you need goats and turkeys and guineas, but it's for your own good that we tell you these things.

So we welcome you to PAA

Well, I forgot.. I do have 3 ducks. I use to have Guineas too.

What breed of ducks? i have Muscovies

 

[Jloeffler]

RedRooster! Miss Lydia did a great job of explaining chicken addiction and it sounds like you are grasping the idea of chicken math, so we, your fellow enablers..er, addicts, will help you with the rest!!

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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For one thing he hasn't eaten a meal in about 3 days...I but ya he comes back up to the yard looking for another pea-snack. Hopefully, he'll get his rear-end caught in the trap and in the morning..he will be history. Or...I could cook him and feed him back to the girls for a sweet revenge! *inset evil laugh*

He keeps coming up here 'cause the animals are fat and easy to catch, there is water out, and there is nothing to eat out in the pasture...

Last year I had to coyotes that would come up to the barn WHILE I WAS FEEDING and would be waiting for me to let out my chickens!

~Aspen

Wait a sec, don't you have dogs?

Yes, 4.

Two inside, and two outside.

~Aspen

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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OMGoodness Jen!! Are you serious??

~Aspen

 

[Jloeffler]

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :

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OMGoodness Jen!! Are you serious??

~Aspen

Sadly, yes. And STILL no orp boy for my girls!! I cannot be the only person in the area with orps and too many Roos!!​

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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OMGoodness Jen!! Are you serious??

~Aspen

Sadly, yes. And STILL no orp boy for my girls!! I cannot be the only person in the area with orps and too many Roos!!

Sadly, you are are not!!

The Bob-Cat struck again...he killed my broody hen, Sophie.

R.I.P. Sophie girl. He also killed a pair of Aussie juvies!!

We have a trap set, please, please pray that we can kill this pussy cat!!

~Aspen

 

[Jloeffler]

Aspen, normally I am a huge fan of cats, but this kitty has reached the end of its 9 lives!! If only I had some Sniper team connections with which to help you...